Blast-furnace-charging apparatus.



G. L. GOLLORD. BLAST FURNAGE yCHAEGJNG APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.19, 190e.

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GEoneE i.. coLLoBn, or BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

BLAST-ruaNAca-ermneme APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Avug. 16, 1910.

` form distribution of the stock in theA furnace.

Primarily I desire to avoid the disadvantages attendant upon a distribution 0f the stock which causes the finer material to accumulate against the furnace walls while the lumps fall to the center.

throughout the stock and many serious disadvantages in operation result.

'l'have conceived that if the charging -apparatus be designed to cause the stock to fall therefrom directly and verticall into the furnace instead of -being deflecte from the bell or furnace Walls so that it falls ob-v liquely, that the desired distribution 4thereof may be obtained uniformly and irrespective of the height of the stock 1n the furnace. It will be noted that the vertical fall of the stock affords the maximuml protection to the furnace walls.

ln operation, according to my preferred arrangement, when the bell is lowered they stock -falls from the hopper through a distributin passage forme between two guide Walls w ich are preferably concentric and drops in an annular [body straight downwardly, thereby forming an annular wave or rid e ofstock concentric with the furnace wa ls and spaced therefrom sufficiently to permit the lumps to fall both to thecenter and against the Walls, thereby affording the best conditions for the uniform action of the gases throughout the stock.- Obviously the mechanism for obtaining this vertical chara-v ing of the stock may be widely varied and 1t may be ladapted to roduce any desired distrihution, but l pre er to use what is known as the double wave distribution. l have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings designed to that end.

lln the drawings :-Fi ure l, illustrates a Vertical central sectiona view through the upper portion of a blast furnace, equipped u ith .ny invention in its preferred form, and

l Application levd December19, 1906. -Serial No. 348,632.

`and movable with the bell.

Under. such con-- ditions the gases will notact unlformly -invention as illustrated in illustrated with the bell lowered. Fig. 2, is

an enlarged vertical sectional view of the and ig. 4, an outside elevation Aof one of the sectlons'of the outer deector wall. Fig. 5. is a view correspondin illustrates a modification o my invention in which both deiector walls are attached to Fig. 6, illustrates a furthermodification in which the 'inner deflector wall is supported from the ector wall is confurnace while the outer de nected to and movable with the bell.

Similar reference numerals refer to simi lar plarts' throughout the specification.

T- e'furnace 1 may be of any standard construction and provided' with either a single or double hopper.V According to my Fig. 1, I use an lncllned hopper 2 having a charging eXtension 3 with a closing 4bell 4 therefor. This bell comprises a solid conical apex 5 shouldered around its base to receive a sectional extension 6 formed by bolting a number of i sections 7 together. Each section 7 comprises a segment of the extension 6 and of an apron or inner detlectorwall 8 which depends from the bell. I provide a plurality of metal strips 9 keyed to the hopper 2 and an led at their lower ends to receives. plurallty of Water cooled curved plates v10 which abut to form the outer deflectcr Wall. The sections forming the inner and outer deiector walls are provided with flanges 1lv along their abutting edgesl by means of which they 4are bolted together. If desired they may be formed integrally and in like manner the bell may be formed in one piece, vbut a sectional construction is Yused preferably. Each section lO'of` the outer deflector wall has a coiled pipe 12 cast therein and suitabl connected with water circulation pipes or the purpose of keeping the outer def-lector Wall cool and preventing warping.

It will be noted that the outer deector wall extends well down into the furnace and charging bell. F 3, is a top plan view,-

to Fig. 1 and to a Ypoint substantially even with the innerdetlector wall 8 when the bell is lowered. The pur ose of this is to cause the stock, as the bell 1s lowered, to fall between the inner and outer dedector walls'and beguided by them, substantially as indicated loy the arrows and straight down into the furnace. lAs illustrated, the inner and outer deiector walls are parallel. This, however, is not.

, essential to my invention as either or both of the walls may be slightly angularly disposed to each other whenl such angular disposition tends to produce a substantially vertical fall of the stock as contrasted with the oblique discharge of the stock which is obtained from const-ructions now in use.

In Fig. 5, I have illustrated a modification of my invention in which the bell 13 carries both delector walls 14 and 15, the outer deflector being connected by webs 16 to the inner deflector wall which slightly converges inwardly toward its bottom edge and is provided with a ange 17 which is bolted to a fiange 18 on the bell. As the stock is d'eiiected fromthe outer wall it strikes the inner wall, and is deflected again downwardly in a substantially vertical line.

In Fig.v 6, I illustrate a further modifica-tion of my invention in which the belly 13 has only the outer deflector` 19 connected thereto by webs 20 -bolted to the bell flange 18.

This outer deflector is slotted at 21 to receive `the angled arms 22 which are connected to the ho per extension 3 and support the inner dehector 23. The stock may be charged into the hopper in any desired manner and the bell operated in any manner as now practical.v

In accordance with the patent statutes, I have shown and described apparatus illustrating my invention, but do not desire to I be limited to the detail construction of the same.

WhatI claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a blast furnace charging apparatus, a hopper, a closing bell therefor, and a pair `of substantially vertically disposed detion of the furnace, and :an inner opposing substantially as described.

elector carried by and disposed below the e l.

3. In a blast furnace charging apparatus, a vertically movable bell having an annular deflector which depends therefrom and which doesI not exceed the bell in diameter in combination with an outer fixed deector which co-acts with said movable delector,

4. In a blast furnace chargin apparatus, a hopper, a bell for closing sai hop er, an outer annular deflector supported hy the furnace, and an inner annularl deflector carried by the bell, a vertical guide passage for the stock being formed between said deiector walls, substantially as described.

5. In a blast furnace charging apparatus, a hopper, a closing bell therefor having an integral apex and a sectional extension, a sectional inner deflector wall carried by said bell, and a sectional outer deflector wall connected to the furnace, said deflector walls forming a substantially vertical distributing passage way for the stock.

v6. In a blast furnace charging apparatus, the combination with a hopper and a closing bell therefor, of an outer sectional stationary deector which depends into the furnace, means to water cool the sections of said defiector, and an inner deflector movable with the bell and adapted to coact with the outer dellector in distributing the charge in the .'furnace.

7. In a blast furnace cliarging apparatus, a hopper, a closing bell therefor, an outer annular stationary defiector, an inner defiector movable with the 'bell and standing opposed to said outer deflector so as to form an annular directing passage from which the stock falls in an annular body in a substan' tially vertical line into the furnace.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.-

GEORGE L. COLLORD. Witnesses:

H. H. GoLDs'rEIN, NoMIE WELSH. 

